[Elizabeth Davis]

[Sharra Llenos]

We may not have essential NPCs who are murderers, thieves or prosttutes.

[alicia hillier]

The response legit made me laugh. Good job lol.

[Anthony Rand]

Id want an option for followers to be essential.. mostly cus you might like having them around but they are often times very VERY stupid and get themselves killed for no reason.

[Naomi Lastname]

It doesn't matter you yourself and other NPC's should be crying or happy. Depending on the situations.

[Philip Lyon]

Well, I can't say I feel the same emotions as you when it comes to video games, especially to the point where I would cry over one. All in all, I'm sure you'll end up buying Fallout 4 at one point lol.

[Jessica Colville]

I'm not saying you have to cry in real life or feel other emotions in real life. I'm saying for the video game NPC's and the quest tie ins to feel more realistic.

[Melis Hristina]

Ok...

I'll let you know how Fallout 4 goes then.

[Alex Blacke]

I already know this won't exist with essential NPC's existing. It never existed in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, especially The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

[carly mcdonough]

I love how prosttutes are thrown with murderers and thieves

[Justin Bywater]

What won't exist? Emotions?

[M!KkI]

^This right here.

Bethesda has shown us that we can trust them to make fantastic RPGs. They don't owe us anything, but we owe them our complete trust for the services they provide us.

Besides essential NPCs can bring about just as powerful emotions as unessential.

[Camden Unglesbee]

Still say no

Two of the threads I've responded to have allready beem locked so no further comments.

[Elina]

Consequences for the quests.

[Monika]

If you say so!

[Brad Johnson]

It is so.

If all the important NPCs cannot die, then you cannot fail. If you cannot fail, what reason is there to even do anything? The entire point of the games that Bethesda creates is that WE get to create the story. WE are the protagonists. WE control nearly everything..

.. yet we cannot kill every character, we can't use our own voice for our own character, and we have to follow a story that was pre-determined. Yeah, I get it, Fallout 3 wasn't very different when it comes to the last one, but that's the entire point of making new games -- TO IMPROVE on the old ones.

Bethesda hasn't done that. They just made Mass Effect: Fallout Edition.

[Albert Wesker]

I wasn't disagreeing.

[Matt Fletcher]

Huge no! It was absolutely awful in Skyrim, often times NPCs don't even lose the essential tag when they should have and it kills any sense of immersion in the world. I can't believe that after the civil war quest, you can't eliminate certain camps of opposing NPCs because they're still essential for no good reason. Also, on a much smaller scale, there is no good reason for why I can't willfully kill an npc because I don't like them, or have no interest in their quest (especially if it's to do something my character is opposed to ever doing in the first place) .

[Ezekiel Macallister]

I actually agree that there is no sense of failure in these games.

[Meghan Terry]

That was actually due to a bug resulting from most of the original Civil war content getting cut, including the things that unset their essential tags.

[benjamin corsini]

Except that those deaths are the current story. They might live in another story/playthrough.

Also, you might not want to kill all, but this one, or that settlement, and yet have have to waste all your fatman on that guy that keep getting up...

[{Richies Mommy}]

If the quests facilitate consequence, then yes. If the quest-line is linear and doesn't have consequences for some random [censored] dying, then no.

Ah, the good old, top notch Bethesda QA in action.

[Quick Draw III]

All quests should have some sort of consequences. If a quest has no consequences and the quest NPC's die, then tough luck move on and progress doing other quests.

[Sheila Esmailka]

Not my cup of tea. I'll continue to agree to disagree with both you, caffiene, and demon on this matter.

[Maddy Paul]

That's fine we are all allowed to share our opinions here and say why we hate a feature(s) and why we love a feature(s).